Callie Thorne has said that David Duchovny was "awesome" when she starred alongside him in upcoming episodes of Californication.

The Rescue Me actress told Parade that Duchovny made her feel liberated on the set of the Showtime drama.

Thorne said: "He was awesome. It was my first day and my first scene up was having this bedroom scene with him.

"You come in and you don't know anybody and you certainly don't know him and he's not your boyfriend, he's not your friend, and here you are having to act like you know each other in this sense and you hope to create chemistry."

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She added: "He figured me out pretty quickly too. All he had to do was make me laugh and my nerves just kind of melted away. We were just laughing in between each take.

"So what could have been really nerve-wracking and sweat-inducing - and not the sexy sweat - was really liberating.

"David Duchovny is so talented that he could basically have chemistry with a brick wall, because he's so sexy and so good at what he does. I hopefully rose to the occasion, and it's going to be a sexy and funny scene."